Kansas added three more cases this week for a total of 83 across 11 counties in the southwestern part of the state.

Kentucky has its first measles outbreak of 2025, as the U.S. case count sits just short of a 30-year high. There have been ...

As of June 2, 2025, 83 cases of measles have been reported in Kansas, most in the southwest region of the state.

COVID paused prevention efforts, which helped fuel the rise in new infections. Now federal funding cuts threaten to disrupt ...

The COVID-19 pandemic paused many HIV prevention efforts, which helped fuel last year's rise in new infections. President ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment suggests asking your child’s pediatrician about getting an early dose of the ...

The Centers for Disease Control’s Advisory Committee met this week. The panel, itself, was created more than 60 years ago.

It would be nice if the CDC made that a priority. David Mastio is a national opinion columnist for McClatchy and the Kansas City Star. This story was originally published June 3, 2025 at 5:09 AM.

In Kansas, the CDC said 285 of the 556 drug overdose deaths – or 51.2% – involved synthetic opioids like fentanyl. Since 1999, overdose deaths have increased by 436% in Missouri and 524% in Kansas ...

So far, only two states — Texas and Kansas — are listed by the CDC as having issued "updated outbreak recommendations" in response to the virus, which are broken down by age for most residents.

The firings also swept up two CDC workers, both part of a public health training program, who'd been deployed to work on a tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas City, CDC sources told NPR.

The Kansas City TB outbreak shows the value of U.S. government health funding Without the CDC, NIH, and local health departments, the outbreak could have been much worse ...